Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-11
MONDAY.
OGDEN CITY.
As They See Us.

In late issue of the Stats Zeitunq, 8
correspondent who has been recently
travelling through the Territories, gives
the following pen sketch of Ogden as he
saw 1t when coming here last March
from Wyoming. Concluding his descrip-
ton OF the trip through Echo canyon
westward, Mr.. E. Benninghoven goes on
as follows:
Our train and the river which keeps
rushing on by our side with loud rum
bling are doing their best to escape the
rugged scenery of the canyon, and after
we have passed few tunnels we are re-
ceived by broad valley, which is even
in winter rather pretty. We are in the
midst OF Mormon settlement, in Weber.
5,130 feet above the level of the sea.
Here we see for the first time the magic
sign of place of business: Holiness to
the Lord and below the picture
of an eve and the letters u.
G.. NJ. l., viz. 'Zion's Cooperative
Mercantile Institution the profits which
used to flow into the pockets of the
Prophet Brigham Young. Leaving the
fiourishing town we pass DEVILS Gap
and DEVILS Gate and several other sosa-
Der mountains and holes, all of which
here seem to be the "Devil's" own. We
cross Weber River several times and
look up to the crags of the snow-clad
Wasatch mountains which we have ust
left, to enter into the basin of the Great
Salt Lake, formerly desert, sage wilder
ness, but transformed by industrious
hands into luxuriant garden. We pass
along the Wasatch mountains and at last
reach the Western terminus OF the Union
Pacific railroad Ogden, the second large
est city OF Utah Territory.
This our author depicts as follows: "It |
has a very beautiful situation at the |
foot of the Wasatch. 1t has very wide |
streets, as in fact is every town |
settled by Mormons. On each side |
of the street is ditch through which |
runs the clearest mountain water. !
with which the gardens of the CITY are |
irrigated. As the river and town of |
Weber, thus the river and city of Ogden |
received their name from an old noun
tain hunter or trapper. That Weber was
most probably German. {? tranlator)
Ogden has over 1000 $4,000 inhabitants
and is still under the dominion of the
Mormons, who, however, are steadily
losing in influence.
Whoever should imagine to tell from
the exterior aspect of the town whether it
is inhabited or controlled by Mormons.
will be disappointed for he will see on
the street neither a man with a half
dozen women on his arms, nor a woman
by bevy of children. Ex-
cept that one mercantile Mormon sign
nothing can be seen Indicating Mormon
ism. The business houses are as fine
and elegant as those of any metropolis.
The streets and sidewalks are at
least three times as wide as those of
any city OF equal size in the East
and the whole arrangement indicates
that the founders have made the election
OF a pretty site chief point The bust
ness part of the city and that which con-
tains the residences of the aristocracv
are separated by natural high wall, SO
that from the principal business street
and from the depot one sees only a por-
ton of the city. The finest dwelling
houses of the place are on the hill. Dur
ing my sojourn in Ogden l had the
pleasure to see the peaks of the neigh
boring Wasatch mountains wrapped in
snow clouds, while the sun of spring was
smiling over the valley"
l can add that the writer of the forego-
ing was, during his short stay in the
junction city, greatly impressed with our
unparalleled facilities for all kinds of s
enterprises, and he will
not be chary in his praises of our advan-
ages for capital investments when he
reJolnS his Chicago friends.